elcome to Mary McDonnell Vault, your online resource dedicated to actress Mary McDonnell. You better know Mary for her role as Captain Sharon Raydor for the TNT crime series The Closer & Major Crimes. But she also did others like Battlestar Galactica, Independence Day, Donnie Darko, Dances with Wolves, Sneakers and many others. Site is comprehensive of a big photogallery with events, photoshoots, magazines, stills, an extensive press library to collect all the articles and interviews on her and a video gallery section for recorded interviews, sneak peeks and trailers of her projects. We claim no rights to know her personally and it's absolutely respectful of her privacy and paparazzi-free!!!

June 5, 2015   Interviews, Major Crimes, Movies

Come on, major crimes division — how could you have let Phillip Stroh get away on that deal? We last saw the sadistic killer escaping via Uber. Season 4 of Major Crimes is themed around courage and we will see more shakeups in relationships, more Flynn and Sharon, and, yes, more Phillip Stroh (Billy Burke). […]


June 2, 2015   Appereances, Interviews, Videos

For those of you like me who could not attend the panel of Major Crimes at Phoenix Comicon, you can see it now on youtube thanks to MajorCrimesTV. Below I embedded it but be sure to check their site.


May 31, 2015   Interviews, Videos

Mary’s facebook page graced us with a video from the panel of BSG with EJO that she did at Phoenix Comicon. Watch it!


March 12, 2015   Donnie Darko, Movies, Screencaptures

Donnie Darko is a truly weird movie. The first time I saw it I totally disliked (but could have been cause I was only 14 and the rabbit crapped me out!) but re-watching it recently it got a great potential of a good horror movie. No need to say Mary was of course exceptional and […]


February 14, 2015   Articles, Interviews, Stages, The Cherry Orchard

The Oscar-nominated actress stars with David Strathairn in ‘The Cherry Orchard.’ Stands With a Fist is now a Russian aristocrat. Mary McDonnell first rose to fame playing the Anglo-raised-by-Indians character inDances With Wolves, the 1990 film that earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. This month, McDonnell takes the stage at Malvern’s People’s Light […]


February 5, 2015   Articles, Interviews, Stages, The Cherry Orchard

SO, A COUPLE of Academy Award nominees are teaming up to do Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” Big deal, right? You can’t swing a rolled-up Playbill in New York’s theater district without hitting some big-time movie or TV star taking a huge pay cut to hit the boards. (Paging Bradley “Elephant Man” Cooper!) But when […]